About SJS

St. John’s School instills in its students intellectual enthusiasm, leadership, and an appreciation of discovery. We encourage students to focus on achievement with a willingness to explore varied paths to reach their goals. Because the SJS community revels in scholarly, athletic, and artistic adventure, day-to-day life at St. John’s is filled with the joy of learning and doing, both for students and for faculty.

Admission

Since 1946, St. John’s School has been encouraging dedicated students to study, inquire, play, and thrive. Combining accomplishments in academics, athletics, and the arts with selfless service, St. John’s students join and continue our tradition of action, distinction, and service on and off campus. Offering students a supportive environment filled with possibility and fun, we celebrate their lives of discovery, and delight in seeing their successes here in Houston and beyond.

Academics

Offering a thirteen-year sequence of college-preparatory education for its students, the St. John’s School experience focuses on developing the intellectual, ethical, social, spiritual, moral, and physical capabilities of every enrolled student.

School Life

Throughout the thirteen-year sequence, our students thrive in an environment that combines challenge with support, work with play, and individual success with the common good. We celebrate the student willing to use these special years to engage in the possibilities at St. John's and in the world beyond.

Support St. John's

In developing leaders for tomorrow, St. John’s is mindful of the fact that it exists because of the generosity of its founders and seeks to build upon that same spirit of philanthropy today. From current students, to faculty and staff, to parents and alumni, the St. John’s community instills the importance of giving back.

In Middle School choral music, students learn to use and express themselves with their voices. Vocal technique, in-tune singing and choral singing (unison and 2-part) are skills that are explored. In addition, students can further explore vocal music opportunities by joining Cantatores, Boy Choir, the Class 8 Show Choir, or the annual Middle School musical.

Cantatores is a choral ensemble open to all Middle School girls. Performance opportunities are offered through Chapel services, school-sponsored concerts throughout the year, and other community events. Though the group is a performing ensemble, the students are taught music literacy skills, vocal techniques, sight-reading and understanding of style through the process of preparing choral literature.Cantatores meets from August-February, culminating in the Middle School Pop Show.

The Class 8 Show Choir meets from March –May and is open to Class 8 girls only. The choir stages and performs popular music.

The Boy Choir is a non-auditioned choir made up of boys in the 6th through 9th grades (the only cross-divisional ensemble in the school!). They rehearse two times per rotation in the morning ensemble period (7:30-8:15 a.m.) and perform in four major concerts during the year: The Fall & Spring Choral Concerts, Candlelight, and the MS Pop Show, as well as various LS, MS, and US Chapel services.

The Boy Choir performs a diverse array of literature, from Classical to Pop/Rock to World/Ethnic Music. They combine with Cantatores (the MS girls' choir) to dance and sing in the Pop Show, and perform with the SJS orchestra at the annual Candlelight Service.